Professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has acquired project management consultancy Appian Group, as it positions for a surge in private-sector involvement in public housing, hospitals and other social infrastructure.

Tom Peters always looks forward to visiting Australia. As a navy combat engineer in Vietnam in 1966, the young Peters was introduced to Australians in the form of a “bunch of crazy-assed Royal Australian Air Force pilots, who were the only ones stupid enough to be willing to risk landing on bad airstrips in the boondocks.” Peters says he has been a big admirer of the Australian attitude since.

Former two-term chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will headline the annual World Business Forum in Sydney. They will be joined by management expert Tom Peters discussing how to "re-imagine' your business to secure its future, Professor Lynda Gratton from the London Business School who will set out the trends shaping the future of work and the lauded film-maker Oliver Stone speaking on the power of communication.

Business and the government must embrace more playtime if they really want to step up in a changed world, says Sarah Lewis, who served on President Obama’s Arts Policy Committee and appears on Oprah Winfrey’s Power List.

Humans are interacting with others a thousand times more than they did 20 years ago, according to one of the world's leading business strategists, and that is disrupting business to a greater extent than ever before.
Founding partner of the Peppers and Rogers Group, Peppers refers to it as "Zuckerberg's Law" - his modern corollary of Moore's Law where computer power will double in capacity every year for the foreseeable future.

Before the Bell

Before the Bell

The Australian dollar has slipped overnight as global equities pulled back on the final day of their first quarter: Dow off 1.1pc, iron ore at $US51.35, $A at US76.15¢.